The life of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are made of.
Expanding haciendas had been appropr.
He fought not to fulfill personal ambitions, but for the campesinos of Morelos, whose rights were being systematically ignored in Don Porfirio\'s courts.
Born and raised in a tiny village in the small south-central state of Morelos, he led an uprising in 1911--one strand of the larger Mexican Revolution--against the regime of long-time president Porfirio D az.
The life of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are made of